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Sofia Coppola followed up her first
film, The Virgin Suicides, by writing, directing, and producing
Lost in Translation. The film allowed her to win directing nominations
at all of the big awards (Golden Globes, BAFTAs, Directors Guild of
America, and the Academy Awards), giving her a celebrity status as the
third woman, and the first American woman, to earn an Oscar nomination
for directing. Lost in Translation also did well enough at the
Cosmos to give her an easy nomination here as well, the first nomination
for a female director in the awards' short history. But although Lost in
Translation proved to be popular among Cosmo voters, it
could not withstand Peter Jackson and The Return of the King juggernaut.
Sofia can nevertheless take solace in the fact that Cosmo voters considered her to
have penned the best screenplay.